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Soliciting Submissions to the IR15 Doctoral Colloquium
by Kendall, Lori 24 May '14

24 May '14

The Association of Internet Researchers believes that its emerging researchers are the best in the disparate fields that constitute the field/s. In keeping with its commitment to students’ scholarship, we continue the tradition of bringing emerging and established scholars together through the Internet Research 15.0 Doctoral Colloquium (#IR15DC). The IR15DC offers PhD students working in internet research or a related field a special, day-long forum, to be convened on 22 October 2014 (IR15’s designated “Pre Conference Event” day). For many years, this pre-conference event has provided students with the opportunity to a concentrated amount of time with senior scholars to share research projects, address methodological and theoretical challenges, and exchange informal advice on juggling the multiple pressures associated with job searching, publishing, and finishing the dissertation. This year, Mary L. Gray will coordinate IR15DC. She will be joined by a diverse group of colleagues representing the range of AoIR scholarship. The final list of IR15DC Mentors will be announced 1 June (if you plan to attend IR15 and would like to be considered for a spot as a Senior Mentor, please contact Mary ASAP directly at mLg {at} microsoft {dot} com). Interested students should prepare a) a two-page summary of your research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and primary concerns and issues; and b) A brief statement indicating why you want to participate in this doctoral colloquium and what you hope to get out of it. SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION: Please submit the two-page application by Friday, 13 June 2014 (auspicious!) to: Mary L. Gray: mLg {at} microsoft {dot} com Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 1 July 2014. Successful applicants should register for the conference by the early bird deadline of August 1, and will be asked to prepare a four-page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by 31 August 2014.

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New Book Announcement
by Payal Arora 23 May '14

23 May '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* New Book Announcement: Arora, Payal. (2014). The Leisure Commons: A spatial History of Web 2.0. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology & Society Series http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415887113/ Note: if interested in reviewing this book, you can request a free copy from Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/resources/review_copy_request/9780415887113/ Website for further details: www.payalarora.com About the book: There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text. Reviews: "Arora offers us another invitation, which is a refreshing departure from the breathlessness of many studies of the new technologies, and that is the chance to slow down, to pause, to contemplate our surroundings, to smell a possibly political rose. That she finds this potential in the very heart of digitality is one of the many surprises of this thoughtful and wide-ranging book." - From the Foreword by Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University "This is a brilliant navigation of worlds that are not usually brought in conversation: digital space and thick situated struggles engaged in claim-making in the urban sphere. Payal Arora has deep knowledge and experience of both these worlds. Out of this encounter comes a concept the author deploys in diverse ways to mark digital space: the leisure commons." - Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy "In this engaging volume, Arora applies the rich metaphor of the public park to explicate the many ways in which net-based technologies facilitate, but also converge activities of a social, political, cultural and economic nature. Technology as architecture invites, amplifies, but also conceals or discourages. It disrupts and it sustains our daily endeavors into sociality, work, play and fantasy. Arora uses the metaphor of public parks to tell the story of how digital media support us through our daily lives. Through lively writing and layers of intriguing analogies, she compels the reader to think with her, as she explores what technology does to space. Arora lays out an intriguing vision of online environments as technology supported meta-parks that facilitate not just limitless connection, but, better living." - Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of Communications, University of Illinois at Chicago "Payal Arora offers the insight that social media are the latest chapter in a long history of spaces including city parks, walled gardens, office parks, fantasy theme parks and other semi-public, leisure-oriented environments. By framing new technological trends in terms of a 'leisure commons,' her work fills a gap that remained between the spatial metaphors that have proven helpful to make sense of new technologies, and a nuanced realization of how thoroughly leisure practices have permeated daily life." - Paul C. Adams, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Studies, University of Texas at Austin

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AIRGSMLGSM: Tonight at 10pm at ICA14
by Alex Leavitt 22 May '14

22 May '14

Announcement: the inaugural AIRGSMLGSM (Association of Internet Researchers Graduate Student Mailing List Graduate Student Mixer) will be meeting at 10pm (after the drinks end at tonight's reception) just outside the reception area. We will see how many people we have and walk up to Capitol Hill to take over a bar for some drinks. If you are a graduate student and study the internet, please meet us, and bring your grad student friends! (And if you're not signed up for the AoIR grad student mailing list... what are you waiting for??) Alex Leavitt PhD Candidate USC Annenberg

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2014 Steve Jones Internet Lecture: Ian Bogost
by Sarina Chen 22 May '14

22 May '14

The 2014 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Ian Bogost, at 1:30 pm on Sunday, May 25 in Seattle Sheraton, Redwood A, during the International Communication Association’s 64th Annual Conference, Seattle, May 22 - 26. Ian Bogost is a video game designer, critic and researcher. He holds a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies. He is a founding partner at Persuasive Games. His research and writing consider video games as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on games about social and political issues, including airport security, consumer debt, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, pandemic flu and tort reform. In his lecture, Bogost states that thoughts are things. A word that we'd first associate with matter so quickly becomes one of matters, of affairs, incidents, penchants, circumstances, activities, notions. Bogost discusses, how we can learn to live with things, where things mean stuff rather than ideas and events? How do we approach a world so replete, so overburdened with stuff that it's literally falling apart from the wear? How do we think of ourselves as really just another thing among others, rather than their masters and mistresses? How can we respect things for what they are, irrespective of our contact or concern, and how do we really do so, not just late one weird night, but every day, habitually, for real? And how do we do so without descending into the anguish of nihilism, without simply concluding that the universe is fundamentally indifferent? This event is co-sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com) University of Illinois, Chicago, and the International Communication Association. For more information about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen(a)uni.edu.

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2014 Social Media & Society Conference + Congress 2014
by Barry Wellman 22 May '14

22 May '14

fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:36:26 -0700 From: Brie Chauncey <brie_chauncey(a)gnwc.ca> To: HQP Forum List <grand-forum-hqps(a)forum.grand-nce.ca>, Researcher Forum List <grand-forum-researchers(a)forum.grand-nce.ca> Subject: [Grand-researchers] GRAND News #52: 2014 Social Media & Society Conference + Congress 2014 ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Juried art show and animation festival funding idea for HQP in MFA and MDes programs Many of the art and design researchers in GRAND will have received an email on this and other art and design topics- we apologize if we have missed anyone. If you want to be included in the discussion of art and design in GRAND, please email Rob Woodbury <rw(a)sfu.ca> to be added to an email list specific to this topic. CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION 1. 2014 Social Media & Society Conference | Toronto, ON | September 27-28 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY, a GRAND-sponsored conference, will be held on September 27-28, 2014 in Toronto, ON, Canada. We invite GRAND researchers and HQPs who are doing research on social media to submit a work-in-progress poster. The due date is May 23, 2014. A limited number of GRAND HQP will be offered a travel subsidy that will include $1000 towards eligible travel related expenses and a complimentary conference registration. More information and how to submit, please visit the conference website at https://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=549 For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd at gruzd(a)dal.ca 2. IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media (GEM) 2014 | Toronto, ON | Event date: October 22-24 Submission Deadline Extension (IEEE GEM 2014): The IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media (GEM) 2014 conference submission deadline for full and short papers has been extended to Friday June 6, 2014. The submission deadline for the other paper deadlines (extended abstracts/posters, demos, workshops, tutorials) is still Friday August 1, 2014. The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is pleased to announce the First IEEE Games, Entertainment and Media (GEM) Conference. The venue will provide an opportunity for the demonstration and study of the ways in which games and game technologies are transforming the educational and cultural landscape. The exhibition area will allow researchers, developers and industry professionals to demonstrate how they are using these technologies in research, as teaching tools and as means of modifying behavior in any number of fields. For further information about IEEE GEM 2014, please visit the conference website: www.IEEE-GEM.org <http://www.ieee-gem.org> 3. MobileHCI 2014 | Toronto, ON | Event date: September 23 - 26 The 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) is the premier forum for innovations in mobile, portable and personal devices and with the services to which they enable access. MobileHCI brings together people from diverse areas which provides a multidisciplinary forum for academics, hardware and software developers, designers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with and through mobile devices, applications, and services. MobileHCI maintains a small number of tracks along with a wide range of other program aspects to encourage the exchange of research results, ideas and future research endeavours. Our conference chairs Sara Diamond (OCAD) and Aaron Quigley (University of St Andrews) on behalf of Canada's HCI community and mobile industries, OCAD University and the Graphics, Animation and New Media Network of Centres of Excellence (GRAND NCE) invite you to Toronto for MobileHCI 2014. Our conference will begin on Tuesday September the 23rd 2014 with our workshop, interactive tutorials and doctoral consortium. The main conference program follows on Wednesday September the 24th until Friday September the 26th with our papers program, demonstrations and mobile experiences, posters, design competition and industrial case studies. The organisers are looking forward to welcoming you to the first MobileHCI conference in Canada and the second only in North America in September of 2014. Upcoming Deadlines May 30, 2014: End of SV Application May 30, 2014: Design Competition and Future Innovations Learn more: http://mobilehci.acm.org/2014/ EVENTS 1. Canada 3.0 2014 | Calgary, AB | Oct 28-30 (NEW DATES) TRTech and the Canadian Digital Media Network, partners in presenting the Canada 3.0 2014 conference, are pleased to announce that the event has been rescheduled in Calgary for October 28-30, 2014. Additional details will be posted shortly at http://canada30.ca 2. Congress 2014 | Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada | May 26-28, 2014 The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is the convergence of over 70 scholarly associations, each holding their annual conference under one umbrella. Now in its 83rd year, this flagship event is much more than Canadas largest gathering of scholars across disciplines. Congress 2014 is being hosted by Brock University<http://www.brocku.ca/> in St. Catharines, Ontario. Thetheme<http://congress2014.ca/about-congress/theme> for this years Congress is Borders without Boundaries. Below are some highlights for GRAND researchers: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2014 Annual Meeting Brock University, St. Catharines, ON | May 26-28, 2014 Digital Humanities Without Borders is the theme of the 2014 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities annual meeting to be held at Congress 2014. The conference covers a range of topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities. For more information: http://congress2014.ca/program/events/conference-csdh-255 Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) 2014 Brock University, St. Catharines, ON | May 28, 2014 The CGSA / Association Canadienne dÉtudes Vidéoludiques, an organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of digital games, is holding its annual meeting at Congress 2014. http://congress2014.ca/program/events/conference-cgsa-299 Digital Humanities Summer Institute - DHSI@Congress 2014 Brock University, St. Catharines, ON | May 28-30, 2014 The DHSI@Congress is a series of 2.5 hour workshops for scholars, staff, and students interested in a hands-on introduction to the ways that traditional and digital methods of teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation intersect and enhance one another. DHSI@Congress is brought to you by the DHSI in partnership with CSDH/SCHN and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. DHSI@Congress participants must be registered for Congress in order to take part in the workshops. The plenary is free and open to those not registered for Congress. To register, please visit the Congress registration page<https://www.regonline.ca/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1526736>. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org/events.php, or contact the DHSI@Congress organizer, Constance Crompton, at constance.crompton(a)ubc.ca<mailto:constance.crompton@ubc.ca> or follow @DHInsitute<http://twitter.com/DHInsitute> on Twitter. DHMakerBus at Congress 2014 Brock University, St. Catharines, ON | May 28-30, 2014 The DHMakerBus team (which includes GRAND HQP Kimberley Martin, a PhD candidate at Western University) will be on location at the Congress<http://brocku.ca/congress2014/> of the Social Sciences and Humanities at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, advocating on behalf of 4Humanities<http://4humanities.org/> and the Humanities Matter Tour.<http://humanitiesmatter.strikingly.com/> The team is currently crowdsourcing questions<http://dhmakerbus.com/2014/05/21/the-humanities-matter-at-congressh/> to ask participants at Congress that relate the humanities. For more information visit http://dhmakerbus.com/2014/05/21/the-humanities-matter-at-congressh. If you have any questions about the Humanities Matter Bus Tour project, or would like to help out in preparation for next years tour, please get in touch at dhmakerbus(a)gmail.com<mailto:dhmakerbus@gmail.com>. Cheers, Brie _____________________ Brie Chauncey Special Projects Officer GRAND NCE | Graphics, Animation and New Media Network of Centres of Excellence 685 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC V5T 0C6 778-370-1044 | grand-nce.ca<http://grand-nce.ca/>

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Game History Symposium - Montreal June 27-28
by kelly boudreau 21 May '14

21 May '14

Might be of interest to some on the list. Access is free =) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are very pleased to announce the upcoming Game History Annual Symposium to be held June 27 & 28, 2014 at Grande Bibliothèque, Montréal, 475, boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, Montréal, QC. The 2014 edition of the symposium features panels on the many communities and social practices that define the history of video games: the role of engineers, game designers and store owners, the retro gaming phenomenon, user generated content, marginal themes and the place of minorities, etc. It is our pleasure to welcome four distinguished keynote speakers at the symposium: Tristan Donovan (journalist, author of *Replay*), Mia Consalvo (Canada research chair in game studies, author of *Cheating*), Philippe Ulrich (founder of Cryo) et John Szczepaniak (journalist, *hardcoregaming101*). Includes the exhibit* ‘Micromakers. Early ZX Spectrum Homebrew Development’: *In 1982 the introduction of the ZX Spectrum color microcomputer created an affordable platform which catalyzed hobby programming cultures in the United Kingdom. This exhibition will chart notable contributions by hobbyist Spectrum game makers, commenting on the larger microcomputer development scene, and exploring possible connections to contemporary independent game production. (Curator: Skot Deeming; Consultant: Alisson Gazzard). The *Game History* annual symposium is a platform to connect media historians, sociologists, museum curators and any other researcher interested in the cultural history of games. The event is presented in partnership with Université de Montréal <http://www.umontreal.ca/>, LUDOV (Lab @UdeM for the Documentation and Observation of Video games)<http://ludicine.ca/> , Homo Ludens <http://www.homoludens.uqam.ca/> (UQAM), TAG (Technoculture, Arts and Games research center) <http://tag.hexagram.ca/> (Concordia University) and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec<https://www.banq.qc.ca/> . *Access is free!* *For information about the program and registration, please visit our website <http://www.sahj.ca/> or our Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/events/1436887663230156/?source=3&source_newsfeed_…>* Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer l'édition 2014 du Symposium Annuel Histoire du Jeu, qui aura lieu les 27 et 28 juin 2014 à la Grande Bibliothèque, Montréal, 475, boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, Montréal, QC. Le symposium propose des panels sur diverses communautés et pratiques qui ont forgé l’histoire du jeu vidéo : le rôle des ingénieurs, des créateurs de jeu et des marchands, le phénomène du jeu rétro, la création de niveaux par les joueurs, la place des minorités et des thématiques marginales, etc. Nous accueillerons également quatre conférenciers invités : Tristan Donovan (journaliste, auteur de *Replay*), Mia Consalvo (Chaire de recherche du Canada en jeu vidéo, auteure de*Cheating*), Philippe Ulrich (fondateur de Cryo) et John Szczepaniak (journaliste, *hardcoregaming101*). *Inclut l'exposition* *‘Microfabricants. Les débuts du développement ‘fait maison’ sur la ZX Spectrum’: *En 1982, l’arrivée du micro-ordinateur couleur ZX Spectrum a engendré une plateforme de création abordable, qui a agi en tant que catalyseur pour la culture des programmeurs au Royaume-Uni. Cette exposition s’attachera à retracer les contributions importantes des créateurs de jeux amateurs sur Spectrum, proposant un commentaire sur le milieu du développement sur micro-ordinateur, et explorant les connections éventuelles avec la culture actuelle de création indépendante. (Commissaire: Skot Deeming; Consultante: Alisson Gazzard). Le symposium annuel *Histoire du jeu* est un lieu d’échange pour les historiens des médias, les sociologues, les journalistes, les conservateurs et tout autre chercheur qui s’intéresse à l’histoire culturelle du jeu. L’évènement est présenté en partenariat avec l’Université de Montréal<http://www.umontreal.ca/> , LUDOV (Laboratoire Universitaire de Documentation et d’Observation Vidéoludique <http://ludicine.ca/en>, le groupe de recherche Homo Ludens<http://www.homoludens.uqam.ca/>(UQAM), le groupe de recherche TAG (Technoculture, Arts and Games)<http://tag.hexagram.ca/> (Université Concordia) et Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec<https://www.banq.qc.ca/> . *L’accès est gratuit!* *Pour plus d'informations sur le programme et l'inscription, veuillez visiter notre site web <http://www.sahj.ca/?lang=fr> ounotre page Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/1436887663230156/?source=3&source_newsfeed_…>*

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PhD position at Abertay University Dundee (UK) - "Ethical Hacking"
by Stefano De Paoli 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hello list there is an opportunity for a PhD position at Abertay University Dundee (UK) working on an interdisciplinary project on "Ethical Hacking". More info here: https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061263/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=52612 or http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIU593/research-studentship/ Follows short description of the project and deadlines - full details are on the University Website: This project will investigate the security activity known as penetration testing, with the goal to theorize about organisational practices connected with this activity. Penetration testing is an “ethical hacking” activity intended to improve an organisations defences against cybercrime. Penetration testing is the evaluation of the resistance of an information system to external threats. The goal of the project is to develop a research – with direct collaboration between sociology and computer security - that will study the social and organisational practices of penetration testing and broaden our understanding of what it means for information systems to be secure. We welcome applicants from a range of disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. Sociology, Social Sciences, Media Studies – but not limited to these). The Studentship will commence in September 2014 for a period of up to 3.5 years. Further details on this project can be obtained from Dr Stefano De Paoli ( s.depaoli(a)abertay.ac.uk) The closing date for submissions is 15 June 2014 Dr. Stefano De Paoli Lecturer in Sociology Abertay University Dundee

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A Manifesto for Music Technologists
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 21 May '14

21 May '14

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to call your attention to a manifesto on music, technology and culture at http://www.musictechifesto.org We are hoping it will spur lots of critical discussion, as well as new kinds of collaborations, both across academic disciplines that don't normally talk with one another, and across institutions that don't normally work together. More details are below my signature, but if you support the project, please consider signing on. Thanks for reading. Sincerely, --Jonathan -- Jonathan Sterne Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology Acting Director, Media@McGill (2014-15) Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org http://mcgill.ca/ahcs http://media.mcgill.ca MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke, 2012) -- On 24 March 2014, 21 people came together at Microsoft Research New England for a symposium called “What Is Music Technology For?” held just after the first Music Tech Fest in North America. Those at the symposium were motivated by a passion for music, a fascination with technology and culture, and a concern for how music technology is now developing. Recognizing the fertility of music technology as a subject that bridges computational, scientific, social scientific and humanistic approaches, we looked for common ground across those fields. We debated and developed a set of shared principles about the future of music technology. Built from the notes of that day’s event, and revised together in the weeks that followed, this manifesto is the collaboratively-authored product of this meeting. The symposium was organized by Nancy Baym, Microsoft Research, and Jonathan Sterne, McGill University.

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Reminder: Special Issue on Transmedia & Games/IJGCMS
by Karen Schrier Shaenfield 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is having a great end of the semester/May and enjoying the nice weather! Sorry for any cross-postings. This is a reminder to submit to the special issue of IJGCMS on transmedia and games. The full manuscript is due on June 1st, which is less than two weeks away! -- The International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (http://www.igi-global.com/ijgcms) announces a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to the topic of Transmedia and Games guest edited by Dr. Karen Schrier (Marist College, New York). In this special issue of IJGCMS, we invite submissions that help us grapple with the relationship between transmedia and games. Transmedia means “across media,” (Jenkins, 2011), so it could refer to storytelling across media, or playing, writing, branding, learning, selling, creating and thinking across media, as well. Perspectives from a variety of fields—including education, design, computer science, advertising, communication, media studies, cultural studies, psychology or economics—are all welcome. The purpose of this special issue is to address these types of questions, and consider the relationship between transmedia and games. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that: · Present empirical findings on the use of transmedia and games · Further our theoretical knowledge of games and transmedia · Conduct meta-analyses of existing research on transmedia and games · Present innovative case studies related to games and transmedia · Explore design, production, or implementation models or frameworks in relation to transmedia and games Possible topics to consider, in relation to transmedia, are: · ARGs · Learning and education · Fan, player, and audience participation · Business and funding models · Design and world creation · Global and local participation · Motivational factors · Writing and storytelling · Indie development · Branding and marketing · Co-creation between designers and players · Ethical implications · Distinctions among franchises, seriality, adaptations, and transmedia · Multimodality and intertextuality · Engagement, fun, and flow · Defining and redefining transmedia · Production and design processes Potential authors are encouraged to contact Dr. Schrier (Karen.Schrier(a)marist.edu) to ask about the appropriateness of their topic. Transmedial submissions are also welcome. Deadline for all types of submissions: June 1, 2014. Manuscripts should be submitted in APA format. They will typically be 5000-8000 words in length. Full submission guidelines can be found at: http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx Mission IJGCMS is a peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of electronic games and computer-mediated simulations. IJGCMS publishes research articles, theoretical critiques, and book reviews related to the development and evaluation of games and computer-mediated simulations. One main goal of this peer-reviewed, international journal is to promote a deep conceptual and empirical understanding of the roles of electronic games and computer-mediated simulations across multiple disciplines. A second goal is to help build a significant bridge between research and practice on electronic gaming and simulations, supporting the work of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research
by jeremy hunsinger 20 May '14

20 May '14

Apologies for crossposting, please distribute as appropriate: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: · Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) · Title of chapter · Author name/s, institutional details · Corresponding author’s email address · Keywords (no more than 5) · Abstract (no more than 500 words) · References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook(a)gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain

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